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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-28
MOVE ON !"
To the HOrhmen'S AdrOcdte:

To the H'Orkmen's AdrOcate:
A few weeks ago had the pleasure of
hearing DIR. McGlynn lecture on the
Gross of New Crusade | had the
pleasure of an introduction to him, and
next day | called three times at the hotel
where he stopped, but he was always
out
DR.. McGlynn is fluent and very
agreeable speaker he is almost fascinat-
ing. He is Henry George through and
through, but think it should not be a
very difficult matter to make him move
on"
He said that the bust made out of a
marble block belongs to the sculptor,
but marble blocks are not made by man
and therefore belong to those who choose
to take them.
And IN speaking of labor he said that
the marble block must be brought to the
soul ptor to be useful and that transport
alton therefore is also labor.
BY parity of reasoning should he not
also say, that the products of nature are
useless without being within reach of
man, and that therefore not only the
products of nature, but also those things
which are indispensably necessary to
make them available, to wit: tools and
machinery should be common property,
as well as land and the products of it.
For, OF what good is the one to me, if /
have not the other?
lie further said that when this new
political economy Georges theory
should have been established, wages will
be equal to the full result of labor. Is it
not remarkable that man of so great
intelligence as DIR. McGlynn does not
see that such is impossible? Why does
man employ another? If he cannot
make profit on his labor, where is the
incentive for employment? Why should
q man pay wages to another and then
wait for months for a return of his
money if he cannot profit by it? If the
employer would have to make full COM
pensatlon for mans labor, If he had to
pay It's real productive value and not
only the market price, would this not
be an end OF the wage-system?
On the other hand, can there be an
END OF the wage-system as long as one
class IS in possession of the means of la
Dor, to wit: tools and machinery. etc.
and the other class has nothing but labor
force which is entirely useless without
the tools and machinery?
And even if we all could do what we
cannot do, till the ground, we would
need plows and other implements.
Must not the one who has nothing but
labor force be entirely subservient to
him who owns the means of labor?
DR.. Mctilynn therefore must "move
on a little He now draws the line
where things should cease to be private
property and should became common
property, between products of nature
and products of man. He must move
the line little and must draw it between
products of nature and those things
nee essary to make them accessible and
available on the one side, and products
OF man so far as they are for consump-
ton on the other side.
This course of reasoning would bring
HIM within the ranks of the socialists, true,
but he would then in reality be what he
Is now generally called by his opponents
anyhow. PHI, RAppApoRT.
Indianapolis, May 90, 1887.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-28
New HAVEN, MAY 2S, 1887.
PROF. ELY'S FALL.

Those who, from reading "Thc
Labor Movement in America" by
Richard n. Ely, have been led to
believe that the author was more
or less in sympathy with the labor
movement, as well as those WHO hold
the idea that he has comprehended
the gist Of the labor problem, many
have their illusions rudely dispcllcd
by reading his recent pamphlet
"Philanthropy"-writtcn for the
Charity Organization Society of Bal
timorc.
Whether, Mr.. Ely has undergone
change of ideas since he wrote his
'Iabor Movement in America, or
whether he is endcavoring to be all
things to all men, it is impossible to
state. BE that as it may, the tone
of his pamphlet on philanthropy is
so utterly the opposite of what his
preceding works would have led us
to expect that we noted few of the
fallacies so rccklessly exposed there
in.
In his writings heretofore Mr..
to the descriptive; seldom if ever
entering the domain of abstract
thought. In this pamphlet, how
ever, he has made II new departure,
and one not ca Culated to elevate
him in the esteem of his readers,
even if they be opponents Of labor,
which they undoubtedly are, or they
would not be engaged in charitable
enterprise. The author, of course,
bases his conclusions and appeals
upon the most approved method Of
religlo-capltalistc reasoning, which
in the light of the exceptionally
harsh and uncompromlsing attitude
of the entire "roligious press" to-
wards the labor movement, appears
somewhat ridiculous. As | write,
| have before me copy of the Lde-
pendeM which may be considered
the exponent of Christian thought
in America. Of five columns of
editorial matter, three and one-haIf
are given over to dcnunciations of
every phase of the labor movement
in language which would disgrace a
labor paper. Turning from this to
Professor Ely's pamphlet, find
him exhorting the laborer in the
name of God to remain slave
Surely there is a slight discrepancy
here. But to proceed to n review Of
"Phllanthropy.
The author first recommends to
the Christian capitalist that he
''obtain some kind of an idea of
what can he nationally contemplated
as a possible future for the masses;'
then proceeds to impart that idea
after this fashion:
''Only comparatively few can rise to
positions of eminence, because eminence
means a mass lower down. Can
every tree in forest he higher than all
the other trees? Every railway presi
dent necessitates the existence of several
thousand wage-reCevers; every mer.
chant of wealth requires numerous saa
red employees. BY no human possibility
can this be otherwise. 1t l.
not the fault of employers, nor is it due
to the thrftlessness of employees. II lie,
In the nature of things"
Thus, in a very few lines, Profes
scr Ely has analysed and stated tn,
case and rendered a positive decision
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-28

those whom it is impossible to organ
ize, unless it be for the purpose of
mule brigade, to march and bray for
the very men that enslave them.
They bear not aloft the torch of rev.
olution. Oh, no; but they bear
aloft instead the kerosene torch Of
the monopolist and political office
seeker to light him into place and
power from whence he may cOntin-
ne to rule over them with a rod of
iron. No, these men-"the lower
strata of civilized society"-are not
revolutionists, but the very ones
generally relied upon to boot down
or shoot down revolutiOnists if
necessary. -IluDo,d Examiner.
1t recalls old times to have an alb
clifton movement afoot. The old
Abolitionists sought to destroy
slavery. The new ones ann to abol.
ish poverty. OF the two the latter
is much the bigger job. But with
Henry George as the Garrison and
Father McGlynn as the Phillips of
the new crusade there is no telling
what may be done. ". ". World.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-28

accepted. 1t seems that the social
lists have done more than any one
else to establish the Leader, and the
fact that they could, as alleged,
control its course, would of itself in
dictate that they had majority in
the Publishing Association. Social
list readers of the Leader, however,
would hardly suspect it to be So
clalist paper. We cannot see whip
the L0cal should surreptitlously
attack the Lealler because It's elected
editor happens to be a socialist.
Ihere was a vote on Dill pfoVla-
ing for secret ballot system Tor
the State OF connecticut on
the last day oil the Legislative session.
Inc democratic papers are loud
IN their assertion that the demo
Gratis voted Tor the Dill ana the
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-28
To the HOrhmen's Adrocate.

TO NE H0FKmenS AdrOcdfe.
| have recently read report that the
ministers Of Washington, d. c., had
combined and resolved that they would
not marry any parties who had been
divorced, except the cause of d.
vorce was adultery. Iwould like to be
informed why those parties who have
been divorced for adultery are more en-
titled to marry again than those d.
vorced for other causes; it seems to me
that the ministers put premium on
adultery. Everyone who is diligent
reader of the daily papers must he aware
of the many cases where adultery has
been committed by the connivance of
the partner of domestic woes to lay the
foundation for divorce, HoRAcE
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-28
COMMUNICATIONS.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS Write plain
boil down" your letters; make them short
write only on one side of the paper. Be as good
natured as You can under the circumstances
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-28
DAM Y,

1imid Knight won't say that Pow
derry Is a fraud, but since others have
lntlmated as much, and shown reason
able evidence, | shall not deny that l
believe it.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-28

lloN biiaJ &iIJ toili paiauiNoiJ ~"
can rise to positions of cmlnence."
Neither will anyone claim that
"cvcry tree in the forest can be
higher than the other trees" but we
are told that "cvery railway pres-
dent ncccssltates the existence OF
thousands of wage receivers" This
is untrue. The railway president
has nothing to do with the wage
receivers. Every railway, in opera
ton, ncccssitatcs the labor Of thous-
ands Of people. They are not neces
mily wage-rccclvers. If the rail
WAYS were operated on the co-opera-
tive plan and the operators received
portion of the earnings IN return for
their services, their labor would be
every whit as effective AZ il they re-
ccived wages. Therefore the rail-
way does not ncccssitatc thousands
of wagc-rcccivers, but requires IN
stead the labor of thousands of hui
man beings. AS for the president
of II railway, he necessitates nothing.
If he were removed, the railway
would still ncccssitate the labor of
thousands of people. The people
who work on u railway were not
made, | take it, by Mr.. Ely's God,
because they were necessary to the
cmincnce of railway president.
Nor were they made for the railway.
The railway was made for them and
they for the railway-and the pres-
dcnt-he is wholly supernuous, as a
matter of course.
1t is the same with the merchant;
he does not require. the services of
employees. His business requires
the labor of u certain number of
people. II the merchant were re-
moved the business would still re-
qulre such labor.
1t will be seen that it is impossible
for Mr.. Ely to disassocate the phan-
tom of onc.man power from the real
ity of the worthlessness of one man.
Having thus philosophically stated
the case, the author informs us that
this condition sis not the fault of
the employers, nor is it due to the
thrftlessness of employees, but it hes
in the nature of things" And fur
ther, that "by no human possibility
can it be otherwise. "
These conditions being neither the
fault of the employer nor the en-
pIove, but due to the natural order
of things, must be the work of a
Divine Providence (according to the
profossor) and hence right, and be-
yond "thc human possibility of
change" That which one wishes is
always quite easy to substantIate to
the satisfaction of ones self, and the
readiness with which Mr.. Ely ad
duces his proofs shows where his
sympathy lies. Here are a few Of
his logical conclusions:
"Only few of the laboring class car
rise, for ii is by them mat others rise. II
is of the utmost importance that this
truth should be fully grasped by all
would assist how would save do? so.
ciety. The ordinary free labor.
err should he fixed in that condition fol
life"
The author, admitting that "only a
few of the laboring class can rise,
because it is by them that Others
rise acknowledges it to be right
that such is the case, and even re-
commends that measures be taken
to Elk the ordinary free laborer in
his present condition for life" Can
anything be more opposed to progress.
and civilization, or more inhumau
than this proposition, to fix The
working classes in their present con.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-28

The Order of Knights of Labor,
though waning in influence to-day.
has not existed in vain. 1t has been
a potent factor in the social evolu-
ton, and might have continued so,
had it not confined itself to old
methods when new ones were needed.
Now, as Robert Pyne says,
"The political Labor Party is taking
up and carrying on the fight for indus
trial emancipation from the line where
the Order of Knights of Labor baked
and was side-tracked.
The creation of satisfied class in
power in any organization is sure to
be followed 10y reaction.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-28
COOPERATION.

lake look AT IL.
The miserable condition of n large
number of wage workers, and the
threatening aspect in industrial
circles has again moved number Of
the more fortunate wagc-wOrkers to
seek u haven of safety; but they
cling to old prejudices and customs
with a tcnacity that dooms them to
keep company with the companions
of competition disappointment
and failure. We refer to the numer-
Gus "eo-opcrative" enterprises just
now being started INTO brief season
of activity.
But, we are told, look at ROchdale,
in England, and a number of our
own cooperative concerns which are
in Il hourishing condition And,
we add, by the grace of competitive
capital.
As q matter of fact, these cooper
alive concerns are nothing more nor
less than another phase of capital
sm-a mere modification, and
slight one at that, of the prevailing
system of profit and competition.
A number of workmen, taking adj
vantage of circumstances, such, for
instance, as a public sentiment in
their favor caused by their too tyran-
nical treatment by their bosses, re-
solve to start business of their own.
Each contributes to q common fund
which constitutes the capital of the
concern. Sympathizing friends and
others patronize the cooperative
firm, and perhaps are we'll satisfied
with the quality of their work. But
the co-opcrators soon find that they
must compete with greater capital
ists, for "buslness is business" and
in order to get sufficient patronage
to keep themselves busy, they are
compelled to seek it in the competi-
tive market. They find that their
customers employ them when they
can furnish their labor as cheap or
cheaper than their captallstlc COM
petitors. Perhaps, being specially
favored, they find more work than
the members of the firm can attend
to. In order to keep their custom
ers they must not refuse the demands
made upon them. DO they seek
new partners? Not often. They
hire Others to work for wages. Self
interest crceps in--they cannot afford
to pay more wages than their capt.
talistic competitors. They are Sin
the SWIM" They make profit on
their hired help. They are cooper
atois in the same sense that their
possible former employers were.
They have become employers them
selves, and they find it to their in
terest to get rs much out of their
own wago-slayes for rs little wages
as other employers.
This picture tells of the success
full co-operators' under the present
system. BY far the greater majority
of such schemes fail even as business
enterprises. They all fail as a means
of improving the condition of the
wage-workers at large.
Yeti Notwithstanding the expert
ences of the past there are always to
be found Contemplating" workingmen
who will take the risk of Cooper
ating," just as there are always found
individuals who go into business on
their own account, only to fail in
four eases out of five, according to
Bradstreet's.
If workingmen would but study
their interests more deeply and de-
vote as much energy to the only
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-28

The New York Local, a recently
established weekly, rejoiced two weeks
ago over the report that the editor of
Ledier who is known as socialist.
was to resign. The Leader thereupon
announced that the resignation of
its editor had been in the hands of
the publishing committee ever since
his appointment, but had never been
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
A Lucky Man.

Pueblo (Col.) 0aieftain, Sept. %.
Mr.. Albert Evans and his brother, j.
+. Evans, of Rockvale, were registered
at the Victoria hotel Saturday. The
former purchased a few days ago one
! tenth of ticket No. CT, 5p3 in the Sep
TENDER drawing OF The Louisiana State
Lottery for one dollar. When the tele-
graphic returns of the drawing We're
received the ticket sold to Mr.. Evans
was found to have drawn one.tenth Of
the fifty thousand dollar prize, giving
HIM the handsome sum Of tive thousand
! dollars for a dollar invested. Mr.. Ey.
ans has been in the habit of investing
two or three dollars every month for
tickets for the past year, but this
is the first large prize he has caught.
He is a young man who has followed
coal mining for a living but he intends
to invest this money in a farm and es-
tablish himself for life. Colorado has
been unusu Ally favored this month, as
4 tenth of a SIC, 900 prize and a tenth
of a 81 600 were also sold here. With
in the last year a proprietor OF a cigar
store in Denver drew $4,000, and Mr..
Ricketts,, of Crested Butte, drew 800
600, SO that it is evident that the lot
terry company is not ahead of this State,
whatever they may be elsewhere, and
the CT ntennial State sustains its reputa-
ton for being a lucky field for specula-
ton with Pueblo as the banner city.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
Scientific Farming i'm Georgia.

Bob Upper is a colored farmer OF
this community, and his mode Of pro-
ceuure illustrates n very large ma
Jority OF colored farmers who rent
land and farm "on their w hook"
Robert is the owner of an emaciated.
d~un-colored, bobtailed bull, which
serves as plow-horse, Sunday-go-to-
meeting buggy nag and hauler of II
Saturdays load of wood. sab" The
feed of this bovine consists of wire
grass, trapped during the Silly hours
of the night, while his master sleeps
the sleep OF the just, and hence it is
Oid Dun doesn't present that well-fed,
sleek appearance incident to high liv-
ing.
Passing Farmer Tipper's recently
this reporter found that gentleman
pulling a bell line over Old Dun and
gong Mt a snaiPs pace, throwing two
burrows TO some pale, sickly looking
corn that ST .ggled for existence amid
the weeds and grass always present in
the average colored planters crop.
Hailing Us and asking the loan of a
''chaw terbacker, sah," the following
dialogue ensued:
''P, my Nti q StN hoC ott tidb
corn?' asked the reporter.
Il lows ter, boss, when ! lays by
although the corn was in full silk and
tassel at waist high.
How did you begin that crop,
Bob?' asked the reporter.
"ln de fust place, sab, | run one
furrer in de middle and drapt de con
en- kivercd it wild my feet. One munt
later ! flung two ~furrers TO if, and den
side out my cotton crap Of twelve
akcrs. Fust er June | fling two more
fnrrers TO de con an two more To my
cotton ard chops it out. Dis is de
next piowin' | gives de con. Next
time ia bust out desc baulks. and den
I'll hoe it, sab, cf its with it,"
do you prepare your land before
planting, Bob?' asked the reporter.
80, no, sah. 'Twon't do ter 90 to
sturyin' the sarrl (soiD too much in
dis sandy Ian You mus plant in de
warter furrcr ter ketch de rain dat
falls, and den, as you kin, fling de
sarrl to de con as she grows. Twon't
do 10 sturv de sarrl too much, ease ID
you do you lose all de suption (sub-
s~tance) in de lam" said Bob. looking
rs wise as Solomon himsclf.-Bdin.
Ortdge (Gd.) Democrat.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05

The accidental opening of a soldiers
grave at Atlanta recently, disclosed
what is rarely ever hidden in the
tomb-moncy. The grave was on the
side of a hill, near the East Tennessee
Railroad shops, and was about four or
five feet deep. The soldier was prob
ably hastily buried there during the
war. Workmen have been engaged
in making IN excavation at this place
for several days and more than nee
have discovered bones that greatly re-
sembled those of a human body. They
dug a hole twelve feet deep and four
feet square and into it lowered II small
can filled with gunpowder, to which a
fuse was attached, for the purpose of
loosening the earth. Over the can
they firmly packed some clay and the
fuse was then lighted. In a few sec
onds there was a muttled explosion
and for several yards around the earth
was broken up as if it had been thor
oughly plowed.
In n spot within a few feet of the
hole, a solid piece of earth had been
lifted up and turned over, leaving IN
excavation eight feet square and five
feet deep. One of the workmen peered
into the cavity, and, hastily returning
To his companions, exclaimed, That's
a grave and there's a skeleton in il"
The men looked into the tomb and
saw q human skeleton with all the
bones in their proper place, but on a
touch they fell apart. A closer in
spection was made and several brass
buttons, with the letters ~. s." on
them, and the visor of a cap were
found in the grave. There was no sigL
Of burial garments or of decayed wood
TO show that the dead soldier had been
buried in a coffin.
Il believe this is money" exclaimed
n of the workmen as he brushed the
earth-stains from something round in
his hand. He held Il $40 gold piece.
II have found one just like it." ex-
citedly exclaimed another laborer, and
he set to work to make his gold shine.
Here's a small piece So" ex-
claimed a third workman.
The search became general and one
more $40 gold piece, two tens and
another five making in all 800, were
found in the soldiers grave.
One of the laborers who had not been
fortunate enough to pick up one of the
coins said: You wouldn't catch me
taking money home what came out of
a grave. 1 just tell you that skeleton
will haunt you fellows what's got that
gold, sure's you're born"
This caused some uneasiness among
the holders Of the money, but they did
not give it up. The body was that of
a Union soldier, as the letters on the
brass buttons clearly indicated, and
he was probably among the killed
in one of the battles fought around At
lanta. Like many others who met n
similar fate, he was buried without a
winding sheet or shroud and with lit
tie ceremony. He was probably
buried in the clothes in which ne was
shot down, and his money was left in
his pockets and covered up in the
grave. After more than twenty years
no trace of garments could be found,
but the gold was still there, and Of all
the contents of the tomb it was the
only thing that remained for which
men are Dr. lind use to-day.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
Hideous in Every Guise.

Whether IL be the best known form, chills
and fever, or else bilious remittsnt. double
ague or agus cake. is that abominable dis
order involving the liver. the bowels and
the kidneys. known as malaria. Every com
plant classified under this generic. though
erroneous appellation, is destructive OF the
nervous system, but is, unhappily, not &c
be subdued, or even check ed, by the use .!
ordinary nervines, febrifuges or tones
There is, however, prompt relief and ulti-
mate cure TO be found in Hostetters Stom-
remedies OF America, and widely known III
other lands. MOI. only diseases born o
miasma but rheumatic eoDplsinte. super
heritsd or incurred debility Of the kidneys
or bladder, dyspepsia and On irregular con
dition Of the bowels, are curabie-n nay, GER
tain to be cured by this d~eservedly esteem
ige.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
A Wonderful City.

Kanopolis, Kansas, is the most re-
markable city in the country On account
Of its growth wi hin two years. The
climate makes it q desirable place to
live. We have some cnoice building
lots there for business and residence
purposes, which we offer for sale the
next 80 days, below the prevailing
market price. Send for descriptive
circulars. Address,
SIOUX CITY PRINTING Co.
Sioux City, iowa.